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for the third time in three months a young child has been killed in an accident involving of falling television. >> it's an unimaginable tragedy for any parent of a small child we don't have a ton of information on this latest incident but we do have is coming from the cook county medical examiner's office. that is a four year-old who suffered
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head trauma when a television fell on top of her this happened today at her family's home in the 600 block of sullivan lane. in south suburban university park. she was rushed jet advocate christ medical center in oak lawn where she died. her parents were not at home tonight but neighbors we talked to were in disbelief that this happened to such a sweet little girl. this is third time this has happened in the chicago area in the last three months, you may remember the three world should i a singleton was killed in november when a 27 in. older model tv fell on her while she was playing in her ankle what home he and on october 30th
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claremont was 6 years old and died after a 36 in. television fell on top of him. this latest case involving a four year-old girl from university park and we were hoping to get more information from police at some point on how this happened and of course as we get more details will bring them to you. >> a south side family is looking for answers surrounding the death of a teenager who collapsed at the cook county juvenile detention center, 16 year-old died saturday afternoon the medical examiner's office told the chicago tribune that she was playing basketball and had a verbal altercation with someone and then collapsed when he was being led away. his family says that the teens suffer from high blood pressure and took medication for the condition they say that officials with the juvenile detention center told them that the boy's blood pressure was up on friday.
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>> they checked his pressure and i want to know why they let him go back outside anyway when they knew he had high blood pressure in the first place. but they still let him go out. >> trying to determine the cause of his death was inconclusive the family says the overshot an unprepared and are trying to figure out how they will pay for his funeral. >> a two year-old girl is in critical condition tonight after being accidently shot at her home in gary. >> right now we're taking it one step at a time. >> the shooting was sudden and accidental according to the family of the two year-old, she was shot in the head early saturday morning inside of her home here on west ninth street in gary by another child paying with a 22 caliber handgun. her
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father robert on the phone sunday as he stands with her at the children's hospital not know when what the future would bring for his little girl. gary police say they only learned about the shooting after the family brought her to a hospital in gary and are now working with very little information as that young girl is in a very serious situation. chicago police are still looking for suspects from a violent home invasion early saturday morning, they say that a man broke into will local home bound gagged and blindfolded husband and his wife with duct tape and then photographed them before stealing their money into jewelry, cortes was asleep in
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the home when his knees and her husband were confronted by the intruder. put cortes says the family did not know the attacker. the suspect is in custody tonight in connection with the shooting death of a couple in country club hill, police are questioning the relative of a 54 year-old inter has spent, a 54 year-old also who were found shot in their condominium on oak wood avenue shortly after midnight on saturday, the mayor of country club hills says there was an ongoing family dispute about the couple's home. >> the mother who has since passed owns the condominium where this occurred and it was an issue of ownership between a
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brother and sister that we believe caused this. >> meier welch also wanted to assure residents that this was strictly a family issue in the public is not at any risk. >> one person was injured and nine have been left homeless after a fire in the hubble park neighborhood it broke out this morning in a two-story building on north trumbull, one person suffered minor injuries and about a dozen people lived in that building all made it out safely but seven adults into children are left homeless and they are receiving help from the city apartment of human services. chicago police are investigating an accident that injured an elderly woman and a truck driver, officials say the woman was driving this morning on the south side when a truck rear and her small-day the car crashed into a store in the 700 block of west 79th street, the woman in the truck driver were taken to st. bernard hospital
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francis cardinal george will submit a letter of resignation to the pope tomorrow the cardinal is celebrating his 75th birthday and by rule of the catholic church he has to offer up his resignation. cardinal george told us he believes the pope will allow him to remain archbishop of chicago for at least two more years and he also will send along a more personal note to paul benedictus 16th along with a formal resignation letter. survivors of the cruise ship crashed off the coast of italy share their story. republicans running for president will narrow by one tomorrow. the cubs are planning some changes for the wrigley field bleachers. it will be an active weather week. we're looking at all little bit of everything coming down before the end of this work week.
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the death toll has risen to 5 with at least 15 people still missing from a cruise ship crashed off the coast of italy and survivors are now sharing their stories of three living the nightmare. >> passengers were told there was a small technical difficulty but something had gone terribly wrong on the coast of concordia.
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>> in english we heard that they were saying everything was under control but there was an electrical problem with the generator, my husband and i looked at each other instead they are full of it. >> a crew member ran through the lobby yelling abandon ship. >> for some help was nowhere to be found. >> we had the boat to about four or five gates down before refund a light spot we could get into and the people were very angry that we got on the lifeboats because it was very crowded. we were hoping that the staff more than the bigger helping us. >> we jumped in and swim to
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shore, i am still cold and wet i am still in the same clothes that we jumped in, i have no possessions everything is on the boats. the coast guard has launched an investigation into the ship's captain faces multiple charges of manslaughter. >> it was the u.s. coast guard to the rescue this weekend this ice cover broke a path for a russian tanker during more than $1 million of petroleum product found from nome alaska and it was the first-ever attempt with the cutters cracking through almost 300 mi. of sea ice. gnome has enough fuel to last until march and officials say the trip would have been even more difficult by then. former utah governor john huntsman is dropping out of their race for the gop presidential nomination, cnn reports that he will endorse
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mitt romney tomorrow husband campaign has been low on cash into was pulling poorly in south carolina. a group of republican congressmen in south carolina are predicting that if mitt romney was the state's primary he will be the party's candidate, the group did not endorse any particular candidate in saturday's race but said if ronni wins the game is over, at least one of romney's opponents agree with that assessment but newt gingrich is casting himself at the candidate to beat romney and he is appealing to the states more conservative voters. >> if ronni wins here he has an enormous event going forward. >> also on meet the press of
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carolina senator lindsay gramm says if romney does win the state she hopes that the party will rally around her. video shows a large crowds clashing with police, protesters in the capital city in 18 of the towns are calling for the outing of this president, they blame the government for new austerity measures and poor living standards. protesters responded to police's tear gas by throwing objects, dozens of people were injured in romania's president said a new series of debates will get under way starting tomorrow. a russian space krupp has crashed into the pacific ocean, the russian space agency says it's not likely that anyone even saw the craft make the fiery plunge into the ocean the field probe was supposed to travel to a moon of mars but it
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got stuck in earth's orbit one of the heaviest and most toxic pieces of space debris to cash it carried 11 t of rocket fuel. artifacts that haven't been seen since the world columbian exposition are ready for their close-up at the field museum, the rarity that will soon be on display.
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in commemoration of dr. martin luther king jr. birthday rev. jesse jackson is spending tonight at the pacific garden and he will use the time to speak and pray with shelter residents. dr. king's commitment to helping the poor get jobs health-care it cetera, the mission serves as a as a safe haven for about 1100 homeless men and women. occupy chicago protesters also honor dr. king today started their day taking pictures for a rally and they joined more than 1000 people who gathered at the people's church on lawrence avenue in uptown, the event included several presentations included one from cook county board president tony preckwinkle. earlier today preckwinkle spoke at sea temple beth el in northbrook and talked about a jewish communities through the civil rights movement. preckwinkle said that
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the civil-rights movement had countered supporters whose names are not in any history books but whose contributions were invaluable. gov pat quinn was out today promoting the importance of the earned income tax credit, last tuesday queen sign the measure that doubles the tax credit for the working force. this is tax relief for working families on the federal level it's important we help our neighbors in to make sure that they are aware of their opportunity unfortunately every year as many as 20 percent of those who are eligible to not apply. quinn spoke about the tax credits for the congregation at
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the church on the south side. the cubs are taking a cue from their neighbors and announcing a new addition of a rooftop like patio that will be built right into the right-field bleachers the new space is designed to accommodate larger groups from 50-150 and allow them to enjoy the game well they move around without being tied down to a specific seat. tickets will include an all inclusive food and beverage package, also part of the patio-will be a 75 ft. l e d screen displaying game information. the field museum is digging deep into its basement they are bringing up a rare display of mummies which haven't been seen by the public since 1893 world columbian exposition the mummies' haven't been this play or studied properly for years because scientists were freed of damaging them, thanks to ct
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scanning capabilities they were able to virtually on wrap them the exhibit will have a short run february 17th-april 22nd. the live illinois lottery drawing is next. and rain that is expected tomorrow. tonight on instant replay sunday night hockey on wgn and the black hawks against san jose.
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the big story tonight so far has been our high temperatures, 31 which is river is supposed to beat. um we are making for improvements. it looks like it will just be light rain but a little after midnight it will change over to snow and again we may pick up a little accumulation. as you look a time lapse pictures we had a few clouds but also some breaks in the clouds today that allowed for some sunshine but we're calling for increasing cloudiness tonight because of warm air coming up from the southern plains. the clouds will begin building over chicago tonight and it looks like it will be a cloudy drizzly day tomorrow and perhaps a little foggy towards the afternoon something we're watching closely. forecast model show the rain coming in and then, on
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tuesday morning very early we are expecting this note to develop and there's the snow as indicated by our computer models will sneak out of here tuesday. this will not be a sucker by any stretch but we still could pick up up words of one quarter inch. look at these temperatures tonight. it probably feels colder than this, 28 degrees at o'hare. the reason it feels colder is we have these winds which have really been whipping up there tonight about 10-20 mi. per hour occasionally gusting to 25 and that has been producing wind chill numbers, 16 currently at the lakefront, 17
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at o'hare. 18 down at midway, very chilly numbers out there but we are expecting it to get warmer tomorrow. tomorrow afternoon fog possible to go along with a drizzle.
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one of hollywood's biggest single party is is under way tonight, they're also handing out some awards.
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a big night in hollywood as stars turn out for the golden globe awards, among the winners so far kelsey grammar who won for best actor where he plays the mayor of chicago. melissa mccarthy was also nominated in the movie bridesmaids. the american woman for whom king edward abdicated the throne. octavius' spencer won best supporting actor for her role in the movie the help. a new action thriller claimed the top five at the weekend box office.
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the self-proclaimed world's greatest hobby on tortured its way into town this weekend a model railroaders and their families from all over chicago pulled down the tracks to the convention center to get a look at more than 200 manufacturers were more than 50,000 square feet of operating model railroads are on display featuring over 100 different trade layouts. the off-the-cuff side trainhad to pay attention to that story so i would lose my train of thought and get off track. like
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